During my 15 years at Universal, J-Lo was by far the worst celebrity to deal with.

She would refuse to stop at the main gate to get her drive on pass, she expected the Security Officers to recognize her car from a distance and have the gate arm raised well before she got to them so she didn't have to interact with the officers. We (Security Management) did not allow this and it did not please her (lots of hissy fits). She eventually complied.

On one occasion, she sent her assistant to the commissary to get her a sandwich. The assistant returns with the sandwich and J-Lo takes it and inspects it, it isn't the way she wanted it, so she throws the whole thing in her assistant's face.

Beerguy:During my 15 years at Universal, J-Lo was by far the worst celebrity to deal with.

She would refuse to stop at the main gate to get her drive on pass, she expected the Security Officers to recognize her car from a distance and have the gate arm raised well before she got to them so she didn't have to interact with the officers. We (Security Management) did not allow this and it did not please her (lots of hissy fits). She eventually complied.

On one occasion, she sent her assistant to the commissary to get her a sandwich. The assistant returns with the sandwich and J-Lo takes it and inspects it, it isn't the way she wanted it, so she throws the whole thing in her assistant's face.

/CSB

I don't know how the hell someone sits there and takes that. Do these assistants make a lot of money or something?

Sorry for going all ITG, but you throw a sandwich in my face, shiat's about to get real.

OTOH, you could always sue for being assaulted with the sandwich. Emotional trauma and all that.

This is what happens when you get your butt kissed by every person you meet for a few years. I think this is what happened to George Lucas. Not one person in his life stood up to him and told him that what he was doing was crap with both the digitizing of the original trilogy and the horrible movies that he made. Very few people are immune to the echo chamber effect. You see a lot of directors and stars do crap that if they would listen to ANYONE they could have avoided.

Orgasmatron138:Beerguy: During my 15 years at Universal, J-Lo was by far the worst celebrity to deal with.

She would refuse to stop at the main gate to get her drive on pass, she expected the Security Officers to recognize her car from a distance and have the gate arm raised well before she got to them so she didn't have to interact with the officers. We (Security Management) did not allow this and it did not please her (lots of hissy fits). She eventually complied.

On one occasion, she sent her assistant to the commissary to get her a sandwich. The assistant returns with the sandwich and J-Lo takes it and inspects it, it isn't the way she wanted it, so she throws the whole thing in her assistant's face.

/CSB

I don't know how the hell someone sits there and takes that. Do these assistants make a lot of money or something?

Sorry for going all ITG, but you throw a sandwich in my face, shiat's about to get real.

OTOH, you could always sue for being assaulted with the sandwich. Emotional trauma and all that.

You don't pay personal assistants to fetch you sandwiches, you pay them to put up with abuse.

Orgasmatron138:I don't know how the hell someone sits there and takes that. Do these assistants make a lot of money or something?

Depending upon the celeb, the assistant's can be very well paid. However, my gut tells me that J-Lo isn't one of those that would be particularly generous.

A lot of the personal assistants, P.A. (Production Assistants), pages, etc. are willing to take a certain amount of abuse because they feel they are "paying their dues" before moving up in the industry.

I can imagine that a lot of venue and event managers would try to stick an artist in a tuna can if they could get away with it, so I don't have a problem with artists spelling out the terms and conditions.

I can imagine that a lot of venue and event managers would try to stick an artist in a tuna can if they could get away with it, so I don't have a problem with artists spelling out the terms and conditions.

a contract rider serves more than 1 purpose. many artists/actors/etc have some demands they really don't fully expect to be followed. but, some have silly things (bowl full of m&ms with all the browns removed, etc) that tell the "star" and their folks the people at the venue paid attention and probably got many of their real requests addressed.

however, i have a problem with it if the rider is an absolute non-negotiable demand that must be followed no matter the event. when j-lo performed on ramstein airbase in 2001 for the mtv/uso salute the troops show, she stayed all the way in mannheim (~45 miles away) because that was the closest place that would meet her demands

Beerguy:Orgasmatron138: I don't know how the hell someone sits there and takes that. Do these assistants make a lot of money or something?

Depending upon the celeb, the assistant's can be very well paid. However, my gut tells me that J-Lo isn't one of those that would be particularly generous.

A lot of the personal assistants, P.A. (Production Assistants), pages, etc. are willing to take a certain amount of abuse because they feel they are "paying their dues" before moving up in the industry.

Ah, that makes more sense. Using the position to network with top people in the industry.

I still can't help but feel that I'd be a "When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong" guy, though.

Also, what does she do anymore? I haven't heard of any albums or movies, is she just making the rounds being a complete biatch?

According to IMDB, mostly voice work for "Ice Age" sequels and video game spinoffs. Though she did have a kid a couple of years ago, so that probably slowed her down - she does have a couple of projects in pre-production now.

Beerguy:During my 15 years at Universal, J-Lo was by far the worst celebrity to deal with.

She would refuse to stop at the main gate to get her drive on pass, she expected the Security Officers to recognize her car from a distance and have the gate arm raised well before she got to them so she didn't have to interact with the officers. We (Security Management) did not allow this and it did not please her (lots of hissy fits). She eventually complied.

On one occasion, she sent her assistant to the commissary to get her a sandwich. The assistant returns with the sandwich and J-Lo takes it and inspects it, it isn't the way she wanted it, so she throws the whole thing in her assistant's face.

That much of a biatch, eh?

Always called her "J-Ho" for her BS with getting married and then divorcing less than 6 months afterward. Now she's "entitled J-Ho" from now on.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If there's one celebrity in the world that I can actually use the word "hate" for, it's Jennifer Lopez, and it's because of her personality. She is one of those women that might be attractive if she weren't a completely vile biatch, but her personality makes her one of the ugliest people I've ever had the displeasure of seeing.

ZeroCorpse:I've said it before and I'll say it again: If there's one celebrity in the world that I can actually use the word "hate" for, it's Jennifer Lopez, and it's because of her personality. She is one of those women that might be attractive if she weren't a completely vile biatch, but her personality makes her one of the ugliest people I've ever had the displeasure of seeing.

definitely! i see pics and think "she really is a nice looking chica"...but then i realize just how much of a raging biatch diva she is, and that makes her looking like a wrinkly old witch

I can imagine that a lot of venue and event managers would try to stick an artist in a tuna can if they could get away with it, so I don't have a problem with artists spelling out the terms and conditions.

I can imagine that a lot of venue and event managers would try to stick an artist in a tuna can if they could get away with it, so I don't have a problem with artists spelling out the terms and conditions.

ZeroCorpse:I've said it before and I'll say it again: If there's one celebrity in the world that I can actually use the word "hate" for, it's Jennifer Lopez, and it's because of her personality. She is one of those women that might be attractive if she weren't a completely vile biatch, but her personality makes her one of the ugliest people I've ever had the displeasure of seeing.

Her and Kim Kardashian. One's a vain biatch, the other has a million dollar body, but has a 10 cent brain and is an attention whore.

Rwa2play:ZeroCorpse: I've said it before and I'll say it again: If there's one celebrity in the world that I can actually use the word "hate" for, it's Jennifer Lopez, and it's because of her personality. She is one of those women that might be attractive if she weren't a completely vile biatch, but her personality makes her one of the ugliest people I've ever had the displeasure of seeing.

Her and Kim Kardashian. One's a vain biatch, the other has a million dollar body, but has a 10 cent brain and is an attention whore.